There is no good deal to be made with Iran For Trump, the deal itself is the victory. The fixation has served him well at times: The Abraham Accords , normalizing relations between Israel and four Arab nations, have largely held up since Trump’s first term. But it has led him to a dead end in Iran. The best path forward is an older time-tested approach: containment. Trump’s war of choice against Iran, launched in February , has been a strategic failure by any measure. A decapitation strike that killed Ayatollah Ali Khamenei did not trigger regime collapse. Iran’s missiles remain a potent threat across the region, and its proxies remain active. Its nuclear program was severely set back by last summer’s strikes and the renewed bombing that began in February, but the fighting since then has strengthened Iran’s ambitions to get the bomb. And its government now asserts control over the Strait of Hormuz. The core of June’s memorandum of understanding between the United States and Iran...
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It Was a Great Scam While It Lasted Aug. 13, 2026 Credit... Illustration by The New York Times; source photographs by Kaya & Blank for The New York Times and H. Armstrong Roberts/Getty Images Listen · 5:50 min Share full article 1.2k By Peter Navarro Mr. Navarro is an assistant to President Trump and senior counselor for trade and manufacturing. The recliner really is made in Vietnam. The plant, just north of Ho Chi Minh City, is legit — it’s got thousands of workers making real furniture. The motor inside the recliner is another story. The motor arrives from China finished, branded and boxed, shipped by the container load from a factory in the same corporate family as the furniture maker. Workers unbox it and bolt it into the recliner. Within 90 days the recliner sails from Vung Tau and lands at Norfolk, Va., where the Chinese mechanism is declared as Vietnamese. If the paperwork holds, that “Made in Vietnam” claim erases 25 percentage points of American tariff that would ...